**NO STEALING** Fernkit is born to Brindleface and Whitestorm, along with Ashkit, Elderkit, and, Tulip kit. Fernkit and two of her siblings follow Brindleface out of the nursery, as Fireheart notes that the tabby queen had lost one of her kits shortly after being born. After losing another one of her siblings, she and her brother, Ashkit, gain Cloudkit as a foster brother after Brindleface agrees to take in the kittypet kit. Cloudkit later leads her and her brother out of camp during a snowstorm. The three are found by Fireheart and Sandstorm and are promptly brought back to camp to a worried Brindleface and a cross Bluestar who scolds them.
